Obviously the answers here might be a bit lower than other places…
I’m surprised at how many people are paying for YouTube premium. Just patch the YouTube app with revanced and you get better than YouTube premium for free
I primarily watch YouTube on my smart TV. There are pretty much no other options to avoid ads.
I use SmartTube on my Chromecast to watch YT without ads.
It even has Sponsorblock. built-in. It’s the best Youtube experience on TV.
HDMI
Would setting up a raspberry pi-hole do the work? Asking from ignorance but IIRC, at least in the past, it got the job done
Not for youtube
Only helps on mobile, though.
I’m shocked by the amount of people that don’t know of adblockers on desktop.
But then I remember, I have no life.
Ublock origin
Spotify only. I get an Amazon Prime voucher for 30 days from another telco whenever I subscribe to a data plan.
you don’t even need to pay for that, as I found out recently. on desktop just use an adblocker and you’re good, and on mobile use this https://github.com/Team-xManager/xManager assuming you have an android phone
Thanks, but I’m on the Family Plan.
I don’t pay for a fuck.
Just Spotify at the moment. I might look into trying to stream from Netflix without streaming from Netflix sometime while using friends’ passwords for other places. Once my currently roommate but soon to not be roommate (moving back in with parents soon) doesn’t renew their Dropout subscription, I’d be willing to sign up for that only because I am willing to support the people over at CollegeHumor.
Only Spotify, and that’s on a family plan. The discovery features are what make it worth the money.
… However, I do have a
spotdlscript on my desktop that maintains local copies of all my playlists (runs automatically every Monday).Spotify. It is the only subscription I have aside from my VPN, and mostly because their library is MASSIVE.
With how much I drive I’m constantly listening to the damn thing and being able to pick a genre and let it shuffle without thinking about it is 1000% worth the ten bucks a month to not be constantly picking songs, downloading them, sorting and transferring the library to my phone, maintaining storage space, etc…
Yeah, discovery was one of my main reasons for using it. Getting my own music just sounds like a huge undertaking considering how I listen on a whim.
Use a modded apk?
Sure. I could. But you misunderstand my point. As Gaben said, piracy is a service problem, not a cost problem. Spotify’s service is clean and very nice to use, add on the available library and it makes it very worth my time to pay for and support it.
Hell yeah. I’ll pay a reasonable price for a service with lots of stuff on it if it’s reliable and has a great UI. I’ve considered Spotify, even though I have my beautiful flac collection. It’d be nice not to have to worry about converting them to my phone so I can listen in my car.
Lol so many “pirates” in here
“piracy is a service issue” - if a product doesn’t cost much and saves you time/effort then it can be worth paying a little versus essentially paying yourself less than minimum wage if it’s hard to pirate (depends how valuable your time is though!)
I stream natural gas, electricity, garbage pickup and internet. That’s all.
Spotify, YouTube, and Dropout.
Just Spotify, they haven’t ruined their service yet. I will never be one of those boomers who manually download all their mp3s and think normal people want to transfer files around between devices.
I will never be one of those boomers who manually download all their mp3s (…)
I take it as a personal insult, and wish you to step barefoot on a Lego!
I don’t think the average baby boomer knows how to download an mp3 or play it on a smartphone.
who do you think are the people filled in IRC chatrooms? anyone under 40?
Yeah, (wild estimation) 0.5% of boomers worked in various fields of computer science and were absolutely brilliant with what they accomplished. They built the foundations of everything that we used today, and enabled us to work at levels of abstraction that make our lives way easier.
But still, the average boomer needs to call their grandkids over to switch their TV from HDMI 1 to HDMI 2. I’m being a little bit hyperbolic, but the boomers who didn’t work in tech spent most of their adult lives with virtually no exposure to the computing metaphors that younger generations understand implicitly.
The difference between them and younger generations is that the average millennial grew up using computers, and so the average millennial had vastly better computer literacy.
Gen X: still the forgotten generation.
Not all boomers who manually download mp3s transfer them around. I’m one of those “boomers” (I’m in my 30s) that download their mp3s because I like to own my stuff. I then stream it to my devices using a selfhosted media server without transferring anything.
Yeah that sounds like a very painful experience
I’ve tried them all, but I’ve settled on family subscriptions of Spotify and Youtube Premium, and an amazon prime account that is only used for shipping.
I guess technically I have Plex Pass, but I bought a lifetime pass 10 years ago.
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Spotify family only. Everything else on Plex with Radarr, Sonarr and private tracker.
My girlfriend pays Netflix but I still download from torrent even netflix contents because the quality is better and the player I use is way better too.
What player do you use?
Hulu, Peacock both had blackfriday deals. Amazon Prime of course…but for some reason I still have Netflix, gotta ditch that shit.
Amazon Prime of course? That’s the worst one in my opinion
True, though between my wife and I, we do to much of our shopping on there. Which I know is WORSE. Love to ditch that too but that is gonna be a slower progress to ditching then Netflix. Their history of cancelling shows and prices hikes makes it easier.
In my country India, I pay for
Amazon Prime - ₹1500 per year Netflix - ₹200 per month (total is like ₹800 but 4 people share it).
